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It's also worth noting that this is something of an extremist lion position held by some politicians and some potential unreliables in the military who would rather see their countries and their people reduced to nuclear ash or placed under a pinochet style dictator than live a day under a...

Leadership is a resource that can be tricky to replace and how dependent revolution is on that resource is a rather thorny question. These kinds of targeteers would like to wager on the side that it is indeed an essential resource.

It makes a certain degree of sense and isn't out of the realm of many strains of cold war thought. In industrialised countries communist revolutionaries concentrate themselves in metropolitan areas. If you nuke them you kill the party leadership in a single stroke and hopefully terrify the...

I won't say too much but 1979 very nearly (in-universe; not referring to the the out of universe writing process) was going to be capstoned with a bomber nuking the Quebecois revolutionaries in Montreal to decapitate the separatists and terrify everyone not reduced to radioactive stains on the...

I don't quite remember my final plans for the lullaby of the stars movie, but my own writing plans for my own projects involve a lot of high octane fight scenes. So I'll write out the final clash of the first war between Mendrogan the Conqueror and Columbia. Or at least, one rendition of it...

Me and Jello have plans for Star Wars. For one thing, Episode I is released first; though not the Episode I you know as the allegories for the fascistization of the liberal republic are more emphasized. For another thing, General Grievous is a hero and is in all six episodes. Any more than...

"Scientists estimate that at maximum mobilization the Chinese Revolutionary Army could just gather around the rivers of France and have a drink to dry up France's drinking supply." :B

The thing about the militias is that it lets the Comintern very rapidly mobilise absolutely obscene numbers of manpower because technically every civilian has had at least reservist level training. If absolutely necessary the Communist international could have more than a hundred million...

I meant "your unit" as in "the unit you will be attached to". Officers are not literally raised out of a unit.

Basically you have to prove yourself that you're deserving of a promotion before you are allowed to be entered into a candidate pool. It's a similar process to the normal military, but and your opposing candidates will be picked from by your unit.

Candidates are screened for competence first before they get to enter the pool, but military soviets are here to stay. Such has been stated in the revisions. The rest of the Comintern's militaries are going to adopt the American model if they want to ensure ease of cooperation during the...

It's a surface level aesthetical change. The bulk of the work in trying to bring officer and enlisted soldiers closer together comes in the sovietization of military command structures and removing officer privileges.

The old names are still used as short hand, but for the purposes of the pencil pushers it's "Brigade Commander", "Squad Commander", "Army Commander" or so on so forth.

Columbia is now just Commander. The old army officer ranks were formally abolished and replaced with (Insert unit size here) Commander.

Eh, life in the Soviet Union was generally speaking; better than life in the current Russian federation under either Yelstin or Putin and most people in Yugoslavia who lived to see it unified agree it was better back then. Look at OTL world war 2 propaganda. On one hand, Germany and Japan...

A key part of propaganda is to make your enemy simultaneously seem so weak that victory is guaranteed but at the same time so overwhelmingly threatening that they must be stopped at all costs. The internet age comes with both greater understanding and more flame wars. Some people will get...

The historiography taught in school is generally fairly hostile to other blocs outside of times of detente; where it's still viciously critical. Most Americans are taught that the French and British empires are ultimately engines of oppression and genocide responsible for the deaths of tens if...

They're referring to the Strasserists.

Wilhelmshaven is probably getting renamed at least, and I can see it being quite busy due to a need to contest the north sea in the future war.

To believe any society is not in the thrall of an ideology is some pretty pure ideology. *Sniff* Liberal ideology is largely unconscious in OTL's America, but it's very much there.